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The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
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The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Fifty years since first publication, E. P. Thompson's revolutionary
account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin
Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael Kenny
This classic and imaginative account of working-class society in
its formative years, 1780 to 1832, revolutionized our understanding
of English social history. E. P. Thompson shows how the working
class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole-life
experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who
underwent degradation, and who yet created a cultured and political
consciousness of great vitality. Reviews: 'A dazzling vindication
of the lives and aspirations of the then - and now once again -
neglected culture of working-class England' Martin Kettle, Observer
'Superbly readable . . . a moving account of the culture of the
self-taught in an age of social and intellectual deprivation' Asa
Briggs, Financial Times 'Thompson's work combines passion and
intellect, the gifts of the poet, the narrator and the analyst' E.
J. Hobsbawm, Independent 'An event not merely in the writing of
English history but in the politics of our century' Michael Foot,
Times Literary Supplement 'The greatest of our socialist
historians' Terry Eagleton, New Statesman About the author: E. P.
Thompson was born in 1924 and read history at Corpus Christi,
Cambridge, graduating in 1946. An academic, writer and acclaimed
historian, his first major work was a biography of William Morris.
The Making of the English Working Class was instantly recognized as
a classic on its publication in 1963 and secured his position as
one of the leading social historians of his time. Thompson was also
an active campaigner and key figure in the ending of the Cold War.
He died in 1993, survived by his wife and two sons.
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